2007 AMC 10A 试题及答案解析.doc

2007 AMC 10 1、One ticket to a show costs at full price. Susan buys 4 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 25% discount. Pam buys 5 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 30% discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?  \o "2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 1"Solution = the amount Pam spent = the amount Susan spent Pam pays 10 more dollars than Susan 2、Define and . What is ?  \o "2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 1"Solution 3、An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures 100 cm by 40 cm and has a height of 50 cm. It is filled with water to a height of 40 cm. A brick with a rectangular base that measures 40 cm by 20 cm and a height of 10 cm is placed in the aquarium. By how many centimeters does the water rise?  \o "2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 1"Solution The volume of the brick is . Thus the water volume rose . 4、The larger of two consecutive odd integers is three times the smaller. What is their sum?  \o "2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 1"Solution Let the two consecutive odd integers be , . Then , so and their sum is . 5、A school store sells 7 pencils and 8 notebooks for . It also sells 5 pencils and 3 notebooks for . How much do 16 pencils and 10 notebooks cost?  \o "2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 1"Solution We let cost of pencils in cents, number of notebooks in cents. Then Subtracting these equations yields . Backwards solving gives . Thus the answer is . 6、At Euclid High School, the number of students taking the AMC10 was 60 in 2002, 66 in 2003, 70 in 2004, 76 in 2005, 78 and 2006, and is 85 in 2007. Between what two consecutive years was there the largest percentage increase?  \o "2009 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 1"Solution We compute the percentage increases: The answer is . In fact, the answer follows directly from examining the differences between each year. The largest differences are , and it is easy to see that due to the decreased starting number of st